Smashing an Egg. That’s It, That's the Game

Is cracking a giant egg open the new Call of Duty? No, but Crack is further proof new Steam indie games are currently operating on a creative plane the rest of us can only hope to understand. It's a co-op game featuring an enormous egg in a laboratory. Nobody knows where it came from. Nobody knows what’s inside it. You've got a pickaxe and instructions to smash it open.

Things get more complicated from there. Crack promises an “incremental adventure,” meaning you don’t just stand around whacking the world’s largest omelette precursor with said pickaxe until something interesting happens.

You begin with relatively sensible egg-cracking equipment like pickaxes and chisels before progressing to dynamite and, apparently, “other weird tools” scattered around the mysterious laboratory. You can build scaffolding, and there are secret rooms, and any broken shells can be turned into currency. …